Bartol, Cyrus Augustus

BARTOL, CYRUS AUGUSTUS: Unitarian; b.
at Freeport, Me., April 30, 1813; d. in Boston
Dec. 16, 1900. He was graduated at Bowdoin,
1832, and at the Harvard Divinity School, 1835;
in 1837 he was ordained as assistant pastor to Dr.
Charles Lowell at the West Church (Unitarian),
Boston; after Dr. Lowell’s death in 1861 he became pastor,
and served till 1888. He was a member
of the Transcendental Club and published a
number of volumes, chiefly sermons and addresses,
among them being Discourses on the Christian Spirit
and Life (2d ed., revised, Boston, 1850); Discourses
on the Christian Body and Form (1853); Pictures of
Europe (1855); Church and Congregation (1858);
Radical Problems (1872); The Rising Faith (1873);
Principles and Portraits (1880); Spiritual Sacrifice
(1884).